The Book Doctors

We’re dedicated to helping writers everywhere get their books published. Successfully. Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry are the experts behind "The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published." Between them, they boast over 30 years of Publishing, Agency, and writing experience. If you want to get published, you need to get with these two.

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Good reference for writers OR artists.

[thebookdoctors]

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

J.K. Rowling

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You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Ray Bradbury (via evocative-eloquence)

[thebookdoctors]

"I invariably have the illusion that the whole play of a story, its start and middle and finish, occur in my mind simultaneously—that I'm seeing it in one flash. But in the working-out, the writing-out, infinite surprises happen. Thank God, because the surprise, the twist, the phrase that comes at the right moment out of nowhere, is the unexpected dividend, that joyful little push that keeps a writer going."

Truman Capote

[thebookdoctors]

“By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”

Brandon Sanderson

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[thebookdoctors]

"After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in."

Henry Miller

[thebookdoctors]

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser

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‎"Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released."

Natalie Goldberg

[thebookdoctors]

"Writing is an odd thing to do. You turn your back on the real world and favor an invisible world you invent. You have to search deep in your inner life. I hear things in a kinesthetic way. I tap into a rhythm of language to portray what I feel."

Mary Gordon

[thebookdoctors]

"I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged."

James Joyce

[thebookdoctors]

‎"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Oscar Wilde

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David Sterry's New Novella: Confessions of a Sex Maniac, now available on Kindle!

David Sterry, one half of The Book Doctors, recently hit the shelves with his novella, Confessions of a Sex Maniac. And now you can read it on your Kindle!

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Sex-Maniac-ebook/dp/B006ML8G1G

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Indie Author Publishing Conference & Pitchapalooza

 Saturday, February 25 at 8:00am at South Mountain Community College Library.

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You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

JK Rowling  (via skylermichele)

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"And eventually as I kept writing, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me."

Larry David

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Amazon and Penguin Group (USA) have announced the fifth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, an international contest seeking fresh new voices in fiction. The Contest awards two grand prizes: one for General Fiction and one for Young Adult Fiction. Each winner will receive a publishing contract with Penguin Group (USA), including a $15,000 advance. The competition is open to unpublished... and self-published novels. CreateSpace will once again host the submission platform for the contest. Visit CreateSpace to: Learn how the Contest works Note key Contest dates Create a free account (if you haven't already) to enter the Contest Connect with other authors to discuss the Contest Prepare your entry today. The submission period begins on January 23, 2012. The Contest submission period ends on February 5, 2012, or when the first 5,000 entries have been received in a category, whichever comes first.